sandflats and eelgrass beds located on the east and west sides of Jordan 

 Cove. A food habits study of winter flounder is also being considered. 

 This species sustains an important recreational and commercial fishery 

 in our area and is considered potentially impacted by plant operations. 

 These programs will obtain information concerning communities not 

 sampled by our present long term program. 



In addition, studies are being considered for the Intake, Effluent, 

 and the discharge quarry. Objectives of these studies will be to 

 evaluate plant impacts in areas receiving the most direct environmental 

 perturbations (Thermal, Scouring, Chemical) caused by plant operation. 

 Sampling along transects running seaward from the Effluent and Intake 

 will allow demarcation of any areas impacted by 2 unit operation and 

 thus provide the basis for evaluation of 3 unit impacts. Preliminary 

 temperature data and infaunal samples along Effluent transects were 

 collected in August 1981. Sampling in the discharge quarry was performed 

 in August 1981 and again in June 1982. Preliminary analysis of August 

 1981 samples revealed an assemblage typical of stressed environments. 

 Capitella spp. and Polydora ligni were codominants in our samples; both 

 are considered opportunistic and able to flourish in environmentally 

 stressed habitats. Since this community receives the most severe plant 

 impacts (at least in terms of temperature, biocides, heavy metals, and 

 chemicals) it provides an "impacted community" against which we can 

 judge potential impacts or the severity of realized impacts at stations 

 further removed from plant influence. Should June 1982 samples reveal a 

 seasonal shift in community composition we will consider a sampling 

 effort coordinated with the quarterly sampling of long term sites. 



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